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Business Support Assistant - Apprenticeship
NHS England Apprenticeships
Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals & Science
Are you a looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you're in luck.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our Older Adult Community Team. We are an award-winning team and when you come to work with us, we will help you reach your full potential. Not only that, we will actively seek opportunities to share the great things you are doing, with others locally, regionally, and nationally.
You'll join a team who support Older Adults with their Mental Health and individuals who may have a memory impairment, and you'll join a Trust that puts people at the heart of what we do. You will be working directly with the Business Support Team who offer assistance and support to the wider team and the management team.
Your career with us will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.
It's a career that you can take pride in and enjoy, and together we can make life better for our communities.
Provide administrative support to the Business Support Officer and the wider Business Support Team in the retrieval of information in relation to key performance indicators.
Provide a full range of office support systems including photo-copying and scanning.
Collate and input data in a timely manner into both manual and electronic systems.
To interpret simple spreadsheets, have a good eye for detail and be able to spot data errors.
Prioritise own workload and meet deadlines in order to meet the requirements of the post.
To open, sort and distribute post (incoming and outgoing), faxes, memos and other messages.
To be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office programmes including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Handle incoming and outgoing telephone calls in a polite and efficient manner, referring telephone queries to a more senior colleague where appropriate. Taking accurate messages and passing them to the appropriate person in a timely manner.
To assist the Business Support Officers in the general preparation of meeting paperwork and support minute taking as and when required.
Support with regular stock checks and ordering/receipt of office stationery.
To be available for regular supervision by the Business Support Officer.
To participate in training and workshops in order to achieve NVQ qualification any other training relevant to role.
Complete surveys as required e.g. staff survey.
Demonstrates own activities to new or less experienced employees.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an award-winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.
We pride ourselves on the services provided to support with the well-being of all of our employees both physically and mentally and offer counselling support and lifestyle information. Opportunities for flexible working are also available depending on the role. We encourage career development provided by in house training programs and coachinsupport. As
As part of our strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, we welcome applications from candidates who meet the specific criteria, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, physical and/or mental disability or offending background. We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.
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£20,270 to £21,318 a year pa pro rota
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The post-holder will be part of a team, responsible for providing a quality administrative service to the Community Mental Health Services supporting the Business Support Officers in the monitoring of performance against the Trusts key performance indicators. To meet the needs of the service, the post holder may be required to work in other administrative areas as appropriate as directed by the line manager.
An annual salary of up to £21,318 (37.5 hours per week) depending on experience
35 - 41 days annual leave including bank holidays(depending on length of service)
Ongoing career development and training
NHS Pension Scheme one of the most comprehensive and generous schemes in the UK
Wellbeing support, such as access to the MPFT Staff Psychology Service, and additional wellbeing days, along with activities throughout the year
Annual recognition event recognising our employees who live and breathe our values
Flexible working opportunities
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, a cycle to work scheme, an annual leave purchase scheme, and much more!
Things that you will have:
Opportunity to complete a Diploma in Customer Service level 2
Maths and English GCSE
Strong team-working skills
A high level of self-motivation and a flexible approach
A positive attitude and be naturally caring and compassionate
A commitment to high-quality care and values and evidence-based practice
Excellent teamwork skills, and professionalism
Maths GCSE
English GCSE
Experience of using Microsoft Office
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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Trump Deplatforms Himself
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The media layoffs continue unabated. The former president's blog, From the Desk of Donald J. Trump, has ceased all editorial operations, deleted its website and all existing posts, and let go of what was presumably its only staffer (Trump).
Following months of bragging that he would start his own platform after being booted from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter, Trump finally launched a blog in early May. The ex-president's posts on the larger social media sites had regularly gathered tens to hundreds of thousands of shares, inspired violence such as the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol that caused five deaths and scores of injuries, and sometimes invoked the specter of nuclear war. For comparison, data from analytics firms showed Trump's blog (complete with its share on Facebook or Twitter buttons) had gathered somewhere around 221,000 organic total shares as of May 11, or about a third of the daily shares of Kim Kardashian's blog.
Senior Trump aide Jason Miller—himself no stranger to taking humiliating Ls—told CNBC that the site will "not be returning." He added that it was totally, definitely never intended to be more than "just [an] auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on," though when CNBC inquired about those broader efforts, Miller said he was "hoping to have more information on the broader efforts soon, but I do not have a precise awareness of timing."
An anonymous adviser (possibly also Miller, but who knows) was less discerning when speaking to the Washington Post. They admitted Trump felt embarrassed after the launch of his blog failed to garner the attention he so desperately desires. The paper wrote the adviser said, "the former president wanted to open a new 'platform' and didn't like that this platform was being mocked and had so few readers."
In memoriam, here's Trump's last post:
Wow! I hear they have thousands and thousands of boats parading in Jupiter, despite the fact that they tried to cancel us. Everyone is having an incredible time. On this day, we especially appreciate everyone who served and fought for our great Country. I love you all!
A search of Twitter shows it was shared a few dozen times, with the majority of the posts having no likes or retweets. Social URL analytics site SharedCount reports it was shared on Facebook 318 times.
It's rough out there in the content mines, but he went out like a champ. A champion jackass. Good luck with the Parler account or whatever.
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Q: How to create a sql table if table does not exsists using php? I am trying to create a table if the table is not present in the database - using PHP.
Below is the code that I am using:
 $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
    if(!$conn)
    {
            die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error());
            exit;
    }
    $db_selected = mysql_select_db($dbname);
    if(!$db_selected)
    {
           $db_selected = " CREATE DATABASE $dbname ";
    }
    $usertb1 = mysql_query("select 1 from $usertb LIMIT 1");
    if( $usertb1 !== FALSE )
    {
           $sql = "CREATE TABLE $usertb( uid INT(20) AUTO_INCREMENT UNIQUE KEY NOT NULL,name VARCHAR(40),email varchar(40) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL)";
    }
    $typetb1 = mysql_query("select 1 from $typetb LIMIT 1");
    if( $typetb1 !== FALSE)
    {
           $sql1 = "CREATE TABLE $typetb( uid INT(20) NOT NULL, type ENUM('QUERYHOMEWEB','QUERYHOMEAPP','ANSWERCART') NOT NULL ,unsubscribe TINYINT(1) NOT NULL,bounce TINYINT(1) NOT NULL,complaint TINYINT(1) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (uid,type), FOREIGN KEY(uid) WHERE promo_user(uid))";
    }

please tell me what wrong with this code.

A: You need to change the sql for CREATE TABLE to CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
    if(!$conn)
    {
            die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error());
            exit;
    }
    $db_selected = mysql_select_db($dbname);
    if(!$db_selected)
    {
           $db_selected = " CREATE DATABASE $dbname ";
    }
    $usertb1 = mysql_query("select 1 from $usertb LIMIT 1");
    if( $usertb1 !== FALSE )
    {
           $sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $usertb( uid INT(20) AUTO_INCREMENT UNIQUE KEY NOT NULL,name VARCHAR(40),email varchar(40) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL)";
    }
    $typetb1 = mysql_query("select 1 from $typetb LIMIT 1");
    if( $typetb1 !== FALSE)
    {
           $sql1 = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $typetb( uid INT(20) NOT NULL, type ENUM('QUERYHOMEWEB','QUERYHOMEAPP','ANSWERCART') NOT NULL ,unsubscribe TINYINT(1) NOT NULL,bounce TINYINT(1) NOT NULL,complaint TINYINT(1) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (uid,type), FOREIGN KEY(uid) WHERE promo_user(uid))";
    }

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Former Armenian President, leader of oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon Ter-Petrosyan met with President of International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Souhayr Belhassen.
Ter-Petrosyan presented deplorable situation with democracy and human rights in Armenia, total dependence of judicial system, that serves as a punishment tool in the hands of authorities, particularly with political prisoners, ANC head office said.
According to him, if FIDH congress these days does not say its fundamental stance on the matter, it will disappoint dramatically the society and will be a significant pledge for the Armenian authorities, inciting them to toughen political pressure and prosecutions.


MILWAUKEE — The 2017 San Juan Shootout has been moved to Daytona Beach, Florida due to severe infrastructure damage in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, Sport Tours International announced today. The state-of-the-art Ocean Center will host the women's basketball tournament Thursday, Nov. 23rd and Friday, Nov. 24th.
The field for the 2017 San Juan Shootout includes Coastal Carolina, North Texas, Buffalo, Nebraska, Detroit and Clemson. Fans who purchased travel packages to Puerto Rico will receive a full refund. Ticket and hotel booking information for the relocated event in Daytona Beach is forthcoming.
The new schedule for the tournament is below.
The Ocean Center is in downtown and just steps away from the beach. The venue is also a host for the Daytona Beach Shootout in December.
Sport Tours International is the national leader in running and organizing college basketball tournaments and foreign trips. Sport Tours has been in business over 30 years and has been running events in Puerto Rico for over 25 years.


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Filming will start next month.
In addition to the musical and anniversary concerts, Les Miserables has been adapted numerous times for TV and movies in English and French. I remember watching the 1998 movie version starring Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush on TV years ago.
I saw that version too, it was released here as a film, wasn't bad but very condensed, inevitably.
This is going to be shown at the end of this month, looks good from the trailer.


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The power of community, Part Two
October 10, 2013 | Tim Hauserman
In a recent blog, I wrote about the efforts of a Tahoe family to help their five year old Julian with his cerebral palsy and frequent seizures. I am happy to say that our community came through in a big way and the fundraising effort was a tremendous success with throngs of people showing up and chipping in to help the child and his family in a variety of different ways. Julian's Mom Kara Fox says, "I am just so proud and totally humbled by how this community came out and supported us." You can still help by going to https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/vzx2/fundraiser-for-julian.
Now, I would like to pass on another inspiring story of local community, the inaugural edition of Ironman Lake Tahoe, held on September 22nd. Whether it was the thousands of volunteers who spent their day joyfully helping the athletes, the towns along the route who wholeheartedly embraced this event, or the athletes themselves, who gave it there all in their effort to conquer the challenging and magnificent course, it was a beautiful thing to behold.
As I spent the day as one of the lucky ones volunteering, I was touched by the athletes incredible spirit. Even while freezing their little tootsies off after that bitter cold early morning swim, they still managed to gave us a smile as they attempted to pluck a bottle of water from our hands while riding past at 30 miles an hour.
Of course for many of us locals, what Ironman was really all about was cheering on a small group of crazy friends who had dedicated themselves for a year to this seemingly impossible goal, and now were struggling to obtain it. For me those friends were Valli Murnane, Rachel Crus, Madona Casini, Annika Bryan, Dawn Gaffney, Dani Griffo, Joe Pace, Brad Altman and the fastest local of all, Kara LaPoint. We spent the day searching for their faces as they roared by on their bikes, or waited into the evening hours at the 64 acres bridge in Tahoe City trying to pick out our friends amongst the crowd of folks struggling by. Just so we could look into their tired eyes and pass on every ounce of courage and pride that we could. We felt like these were the children of our town. And we were the proud parents, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters that were so excited
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It has been announced that Infineon Technologies has extended its Easy family to include a new package: Easy 3B. Together with the other Easy 1B and 2B packages, this comprises the broadest power module portfolio at 12mm height without base plate. Easy 3B is a well suited platform to extend current inverter designs to achieve higher power without changing much on the mechanical side.
At the same time, the new package inherits many of the advantages of the family portfolio such as the flexible pin-grid system, which is very important for customising. The first module with the new package design is a 400A, three-level ANPC (advanced neutral point clamping) device aiming at 1,500V solar inverter applications. The Easy 3B package will be showcased at PCIM 2019.
In utility-scale solar installations, the 1,500V inverter is becoming more and more popular. Total worldwide shipments for this voltage class was 32.7GW of AC power (output power of solar power plant) in 2018. The expected compound annual growth rate of this voltage class for the next five years is expected to be at 20.6%.
In order to address this growing market, this new product is equipped with the latest IGBT technology with a blocking voltage of 950V. The footprint of the Easy 3B package is 110x62mm making it 2.5 times larger than the Easy 2B. This module enables a highly efficient inverter design with a power-rating of up to 150kW and an industry leading power-density of more than 500W/Liter.
Infineon is planning to develop a full Easy 3B portfolio with TRENCHSTOP IGBT7 to address the industrial drives market. This will extend the current Easy module based drive portfolio to include higher current ratings. As this is also the ideal platform for emerging applications like EV chargers and energy storage systems, Infineon will develop products for these applications as well.
Since charging and storage rely on high efficiency, the Easy 3B package will also be introduced with Infineon's CoolSiC MOSFETs utilising the latest silicon carbide chip technology.
Easy 3B is ready for high-volume production. F3L400R10W3S7_B11 is available starting June 2019, samples can be ordered now.


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Personal Loan Agartala, 21 January 2022 from Vijaya Bank
Advance Salary Loan from Vijaya Bank in Agartala
Agartala, a rapidly developing city, is the state capital of Tripura. The name Agartala is derived from two words - "Agar" refers to an oily and valuable perfume tree, and the word "tala" refers to a storehouse. It refers to the abundantly available Agarwood trees in the region. Located on the bank of the Haora River, Agartala is located 2 kilometers away from the Bangladesh Border. The city experiences a humid climate, with heavy rainfall throughout the year except during the dry winter days. The city has around half a million population and is divided into 49 wards for effective administration. Most of the residents of Agartala are employed in government-owned enterprises. The Public Sector Units that provide employment in Agartala are ONGC, GAIL, Powergrid Corp. Of India Ltd, Airports Authority of India (AAI) and BSNL among a few others. The economy of Agartala developed at a very slow pace until about the year 2000. A few MNCs have recently entered the city and the city is gradually picking up the developmental momentum. NIT, Tripura Medical College, Tripura University, MBB College, ICFAI UNIVERSITY, etc. are some of the prominent academic institutions in the city. Hinduism is the most common religion and there are plenty of temples in the city. There are many churches as well since Christianity is also a widespread faith. There are several spectacular places of tourist interest such as Ujjayanta Palace, Agartala Amusement Park Amtali, Venuban Buddha Vihar, Jagannath temple and College Tilla, apart from the numerous parks and gardens that beautify this city.
Low interest rate Premium Bike Loan in Agartala, 21 January 2022 from Vijaya Bank
The Vijaya Bank is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India and it is one of the nationalized public sector banks in India. The bank provides several financial products and services to customers through its delivery channels. As of March 2017, the bank has a network of approximately more than 2000 branches across India and over 4000 customer touch points including 2001 ATMs.Since its inception, the bank grew steadily. It became a scheduled bank in 1958. Vijaya Bank steadily evolved into a large All India Bank with nine smaller banks merging with it during 1963,1968 under the chairmanship of Shri. Mulki Sunder Ram Shetty. The bank registered its logo in 1965. On November 11, 1969, the banks head office was shifted to Bengaluru. On 15 April 1980, the bank was nationalized. The bank had 571 branches, with a total business of ?605.95 crore and a staff strength of 9059 at the time of nationalization. On 26 October 1984, the present head office building of the Bank was inaugurated at Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bengaluru. Shri R.A.Sankara Narayanan is the current MD & CEO of Vijaya bank. As on 31 March 2017, the banks total business is over ?2,29,000 crore containing deposits of ?1,33,012 crore and advances of ?96,821 crore.


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Rokitz Entertainment presents World of Musicals
Thursday, 4 June 2020 Thursday 4th of June, 2020, at 7:30pm
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Child $59.90
The Musical Gala with an International cast brings London's West End and New York's Broadway return to Australia with a brand new show.
The World of Musicals brings the very best of musical theatre to life. This incredible production will return to Australia in 2020 with all your favourite musical theatre hits, including, The Lion King, Fiddler on the Roof, Mamma Mia, We Will Rock You, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, Cats, Evita, Wicked, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Greatest Showman, Jersey Boys, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Miss Saigon, The Boy from OZ, Hairspray, Les Misérables and The Blues Brothers.
The World of Musicals presents colourful, inspiring and memorable musical classics, all performed by an international star-studded cast.
Direct from their USA tour, this select cast of Highly Talented and accomplished Performers have featured in a number of worldwide smash hits.
World of Musicals is a show for the entire family, so get ready to be enthralled and sing along to all your favorite and much-loved musicals in one unforgettable evening.
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Adam Thompson and the We Will Rock You band take their ode to Queen and Freddie Mercury.
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Education Index The Arab-Israeli Conflict
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The Arab- Israeli Conflict is a conflict between the Arab and Jewish people in the Middle East over Israel and Palestine. This conflict has led to wars and millions of displaced people. This particular conflict has historical origins in the lives of the Arab and Jewish people. "The beginning of Zionism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict explain the basic principles of this complicated dispute"(Frankel 17). During the course of history, different groups have invaded Israel and Palestine. The area is historically the homeland of the Jewish people who migrated to the area in the thirteenth century as Hebrew tribes. These Hebrew tribes are …show more content…
By 1948 the Zionist forces gained control over the territory given to the Jewish state in the UN plan. On May 15, 1948, the British evacuated Palestine, and Zionist leaders proclaimed the state of Israel. The neighboring Arab states invaded Israel. This invasion marked the first Arab-Israeli conflict. Later on, the Jewish state army gained arms and was able to claim territory well beyond UN partitioned borderlines for the Jewish state. In 1949, the war between Israel and the Arab states ended with the signing of armistice agreements. Palestine was now divided into three parts now under separate political control. "Israel gained over seventy seven percent of the territory" (Brown 9). Jordan gained control of East Jerusalem and West Bank. Egypt took control of the coast and around the Gaza Strip. As a result of the conflict there have been thousands of displaced peoples in the Arab community. Many people crowd into cities to find shelter for the conflict. The Arab people are discriminated against and face a small possibility for proper representation in their own communities as a result of the conflict. In June 1967 there was a conflict
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The Arab Uprisings: Book Review
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The Syrian Arab Republic is an Arab country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the North, Iraq to the East, Jordan to the South, and Israel to the Southwest. In March 2011, the Syria conflict has begun due to various reasons and is still going on today. This outbreak is one of the key factors which resulted the Arab Spring (Arab Uprising). Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world in 2011….
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Continuing our series of interviews from SUGCON EU, we talk with Stephen Pope from Sitecore about what it's like using .NET Core in the real world. We also dig a bit into the Sitecore publishing service that his team wrote.
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The award recognizes that the chief made "an exceptional contribution to conflict resolution and to resistance against injustice and oppression. He lost his life fighting for his people." Mhlabunzima Maphumulo was the chief of the Maphumulo at Table Mountain, but the people for whom he fought extended beyond his rural chiefdom, earning him the moniker of 'peace chief'.
I am so grateful to have been a part of nominating him and am so pleased to watch his family accept the award. You can learn more about his life in my book, now out in the U.S. and soon in Z.A.
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Kicking off the new website & blog with this image of my research area from the Kew Marianne North Online Gallery. North visited Bishop Colenso's home sometime during her 14 years of travel between 1871 and 1885. Her South African paintings are lovely, but I am of course partial to this one of Table Mountain.
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There are different levels of education system obtainable in the educational field both to the lesser or greater extent but privately maintained by the different institutions. Most of the private educational institutes provide you both the best level of education and different training activities than the public schools. This is why most of the kids and parents would often like to join the private school to get the upmost education.
Whenever you are considering Canada, there are both the private and public kindergarten schools available now but about 40 % of them are private educational institutes. Many private kindergartens are maintained and organized by the various private associations for about 60.9% and the church organization for about 28.3 %. This private school Toronto institutes established by the private individuals, companies or others to provide the best level of early childhood care and education to everyone. But for all public and private kindergartens, there are only same rules applicable in Canada that the kids from the age of 5 years old only should attend the kindergarten for completely free of cost. This free kid's education will be for minimum 16 hours to maximum 4 days in a week. It is probably the agreement based education given between the provinces pursuant and the national government of Canada.
There are also several numbers of private middle school institutes available in this country. More than 90 % of the middle school students in Canada attend only the state schools and only 10 % of them attend the private educational institutions. But the private schools are not only for the kindergarten kids but they are available at all levels of schooling education. When the parents would want to get the best level of education to your children, you should need to immediately join them in the private primary and secondary level schools. Private primary & secondary level educational institutions are maintained well by all the legal entities in order to offer the additional skills along with the basic school education. When it comes to the private education, everyone is afraid of the fee payment. But all the Canada based private schools will only collect the minimum amount of tuition fee for their educational service.
You can also find the private school in Toronto for your higher education but only within your budget. This Canada has an act on the Quality Assurance in the Higher Education which is absolutely effective for your process of accreditation as the private university. At the same time, it will also be applicable for the different types of the study programmes at the private universities.
Additionally, there are several numbers of the private adult education institutions available in Canada in order to give the different university of the applied science programs for the various working adults who can join private training courses only at the affordable course costs. Visit http://www.prestigeprivateschool.ca/ for more details.


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Catch up TV on DCI Banks. Watch the latest and all other episodes of DCI Banks now online, broadcasted on ABC1. Catch up on your favorite ABC1 TV show: DCI Banks. Replay tv on its best! When DCI Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother Roy, he drops everything to find him, just as new recruit DI Helen Morton finds evidence linking Banks to the body of a murder victim.
Episode 3 (Bad Boy)
Banks' old neighbor discovers a gun in her teenage daughter's bedroom; Helen convinces him to lead a firearms team to retrieve the weapon.
Episode 2 (Piece of My Heart)
Banks and his team face an overwhelming number of leads when investigative journalist Matt Barber is found dead in a remote village.
Season 5, Episode 4 (A Little Bit Of Heart (part 2))
The team is thrown when a recently rescued kidnap victim is found murdered, with evidence suggesting a local protection gang is to blame.
Episode 1 (Wednesday's Child)
Claiming to be social workers, a man and a woman come to Katy Heath's house and tell her that they need to take away her son, Kyle; When the body of 11 year old Andre Petri is found on the moors, Bank and his team investigate the murder.
Episode 3 (Innocent Graves)
The murder of teenager from a wealthy family has Banks and the team looking at every possibility to solve the case./Just when the case was gathering momentum Owen Pierce's trial collapses leaving Banks and his team back at square one.
Season 5, Episode 2 (To Burn In Every Drop Of Blood (part 2))
When a woman commits suicide, her grieving father relies on violence to procure answers as he investigates his daughter's death. She left a note confessing to Damon Horsley's murder, but Banks is suspicious.
Episode 1 (Strange Affair)
Banks' very own brother is under suspicion for murder./Banks visits his childhood home to tell his parents about Roy.
Season 5, Episode 5 (Undertow (part 1))
Banks and the team begin the painful job of finding out exactly who was responsible for the incident that has affected all their lives. Banks' obsession with nailing crime boss Steve Richards sends him over the edge.
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Claiming to be social workers, a man and a woman come to Katy Heath's house and tell her that they need to take away her son, Kyle.
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If you are part of the homeopathic community, either as a homeopath or as a patient, you may be aware that the cutting-edge film, Magic Pills, produced and directed by Ananda More, had its debut performance in London, last Friday evening. Social Media has been flooded with coverage of the event, which was a high-quality, trailblazing start to The Society of Homeopaths conference and AGM; and did, in my opinion, set the tone for an excellent weekend all round, of high quality presentations and a wonderful eclectic gathering of the world wide homeopathic community.
The event took place in an auditorium at the School of Pharmacy and was attended by over 160 guests. It was clear that many people had made a real effort to attend; it attracted world-wide attention, also, beautifully merging homeopaths from various registering bodies in the UK.Mark Taylor, the Society of Homeopath's Chief Executive, introduced the event, thanking Ananda for coming and Marcus Christo for helping to facilitate. Having seen the movie many times, I was not prepared for how I would feel seeing it on 'the big screen.' In short, I was moved by the atmosphere and impressed by the quality and professionalism of the production, certainly on a par with major film productions anywhere in the world. The content of film has been discussed and reviewed before so if you would like more details and an analysis of the film read the full review here.
Information on how to host a screening can be found here: http://magicpillsmovie.com/host-screening/. The process is really accessible; you can host a screening in your living room (she just asks for a minimum of 10 people), or hire a village hall, community area or cinema, whatever is easiest for you.
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Other issues of major importance were discussed,given that many homeopaths were in attendance, and could help to bring awareness, as these worldwide issues affect us all, our credibility and our livelihoods; also, our ability to create a heathier world, so please don't feel overwhelmed by the pleas for support, just do what you can and share where you can. It is seriously for the greater good.
In short, Magic Pills, with its dynamic, compelling, honest and engaging content, paved the way for an inspirational and uplifting weekend. The positive themes set out in the film are those of unity, integration and respect; it inspires balance, fairness and justice, overwhelmingly counteracting, in my opinion the predictable negativity and ignorance of the sceptics. The film opens a dialogue and juxtaposes the criticisms of the sceptic community with large scale, real world use and success of homeopathy and presents some of the genuine scientific data.
Ultimately, it exposes a system of medicine which must be taken seriously, given the evidence presented and which is, absolutely, at times, 'magic' in its healing potential.


Salamanders may actively defend themselves once they are grasped by a predator. Besides various antipredator postures S. salamandra adults are able to extrude heavy toxic skin secretions, e.g. the neurotoxic alkaloid Samandarin.
This alkaloid causes strong muscle convulsions and high-blood pressure combined with hyperventilation in all vertebrates.
Wikispecies has an entry on: Salamandra salamandra.
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From right: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, broadcaster Femi Oke and Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at Women's Day event.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today joined other senior United Nations officials on the eve of International Women's Day in highlighting the potential of rural women to improve the well-being of entire societies if given equal access to resources and set free from the discrimination and exploitation that hold them back.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for greater efforts to remove barriers that hinder women's full participation in the economy, citing lack of access to jobs, markets, credit and property as some of the impediments.


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Concept: Rutaceae
Changes in anthocyanin production during domestication of Citrus
Mandarin (C. reticulata), citron (C. medica) and pummelo (C. maxima) are important species of the genus Citrus and parents of the interspecific hybrids that constitute the most familiar commercial varieties of citrus: sweet orange, sour orange, clementine, lemon, lime and grapefruit. Citron produces anthocyanins in its young leaves and flowers, as do species in genera closely related to Citrus, but mandarins do not and pummelo varieties that produce anthocyanins have not been reported. We investigated the activity of the Ruby gene, which encodes a MYB transcription factor controlling anthocyanin biosynthesis, in different accessions of a range of Citrus species and in domesticated cultivars. A white mutant of lemon lacks functional alleles of Ruby, demonstrating that Ruby plays an essential role in anthocyanin production in Citrus. Almost all the natural variation in pigmentation by anthocyanins in Citrus species can be explained by differences in activity of the Ruby gene, caused by point mutations, deletions and insertions of transposable elements. Comparison of the allelic constitution of Ruby in different species and cultivars also helps to clarify many of the taxonomic relationships in different species of Citrus, confirms the derivation of commercial varieties during domestication, elucidates the relationships within the subgenus Papeda and allows a new genetic classification of mandarins.
Concepts: Gene, Evolution, Citrus, Orange, Grapefruit, Citron, Rutaceae, Mandarin orange
Comparative genomic and transcriptome analyses of pathotypes of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri provide insights into mechanisms of bacterial virulence and host range
Citrus bacterial canker is a disease that has severe economic impact on citrus industries worldwide and is caused by a few species and pathotypes of Xanthomonas. X. citri subsp. citri strain 306 (XccA306) is a type A (Asiatic) strain with a wide host range, whereas its variant X. citri subsp. citri strain Aw12879 (Xcaw12879, Wellington strain) is restricted to Mexican lime.
Concepts: Citrus, Taxonomic rank, Rutaceae, Persian lime
Characterization of active antiplatelet chemical compositions of edible Citrus limon through ultra-performance liquid chromatography single quadrupole mass spectrometry-based chemometrics
Food & function
Citrus limon L. (lemon, family: Rutaceae) is the third most popular edible fruit among the Citrus species. Our previous study has shown the significant antiplatelet activity of lemon extracts. The aim of the present study is to identify the features (retention time, m/z) associated with the antiplatelet activity of lemons by correlating a platelet aggregation assay with ultra-performance liquid chromatography single quadrupole mass spectrometry-based chemometrics analysis. The primary bioactivity-guided test results revealed that the butanol (BA) and ethyl acetate (EA) liquid-liquid extraction sections of the ethanol extract of lemons had significant inhibitory effects on platelet aggregation. Upon further separating the combined BA and EA sections with a silica column, four different active fractions were obtained, and their LC-MS data were collected. After modeling by two multivariate statistical techniques, namely, principal component analysis and orthogonal partial least squares discriminate analysis seven markers were predicted, identified, and tentatively classified as priority markers of bioactivity in lemons. Among them, the antiplatelet activity of four marker compounds, namely, oxypeucedanin hydrate, citric acid, diosmin, and limetin at concentrations lower than 300 μM was confirmed. Moreover, the specific mechanism of limetin interaction with the TP β receptor of thromboxane A2 and the effect of limetin on the PI3 K/Rap-1b signaling pathway through the βγ subunit of GPCR (i) in platelet aggregation were studied by differential proteomic analysis to illustrate the validity and persistence of these markers for application in lemon fruit platforms.
Concepts: Protein, Citrus, Analytical chemistry, Citric acid, Orange, Essential oil, Lemon, Rutaceae
Temperature-dependent development of Asian citrus psyllid on various hosts, and mortality by two strains of Isaria
Microbial pathogenesis
The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) is a devastating pest of Citrus spp. The aim of present study was to investigate the development and mortality of ACP on citrus (Citrus sinensis) (healthy and Huánglóngbìng- (HLB) diseased) and jasmine (Murraya paniculata) plants at various temperatures. Two new Isaria strains were collected from citrus orchards of Fuzhou (China), and HLB-diseased plants were verified by running PCR for 16S gene of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas). Development observations were recorded for egg, nymph and adult stages on all plants and three different temperatures (20, 25 and 30 °C) whereas mortality observations were recorded for the nymph (fifth instar) and adults on all plants at 25 °C. Field collected Isaria strains were belonged to previously reported Chinese strains under Maximum Parsimony (MP) and Maximum Likelihood methods, as well as, CLas isolates were belonged to previously reported Chinese isolates under MP and Neighbor-Joining methods. The fastest development and mortality was observed on HLB-diseased plants whereas longest time was taken by development and mortality completion on jasmine plants at all temperatures. The fastest developmental times of egg, nymph (first to fourth and fifth instar) and adult stages were ranged from 3.02 to 3.72 d, to 7.63-9.3 d, 5.35-5.65 d and 24.46-28.47 d on HLB-diseased plants at 30-20 °C, respectively. On the other hand, I. javanica caused the fastest mortality of nymphs and adults (32.21 ± 4.47% and 19.33 ± 4.51%) on HLB-diseased plants with the concentration of 1 × 108 conidia.mL-1 after 3 d and 7 d, respectively. It is concluded that there is a need for extensive molecular work to understand the extra-development and mortality of ACP on diseased plants, because, CLas bacterium can be supportive to uptake more sap from plant phloem.
Concepts: Developmental biology, China, Maximum likelihood, Fruit, Hemiptera, Adult development, Rutaceae, Murraya paniculata
A comparative study on defluoridation capabilities of biosorbents: isotherm, kinetics, thermodynamics, cost estimation, and eco-toxicological study
Environmental science and pollution research international
The present study aims towards fluoride remediation from synthetic water using steam-activated carbon of Aegle marmelos (bael shell/wood apple) (BAC) and Parthenium hysterophorus (PHAC) according to batch sorption techniques. The impact of different parametric conditions viz. initial fluoride concentration (4-12 mg/L), time (0-5 h), temperature (293.15-333.15 K), adsorbent dosage (4-14 g/L), pH (4-9), and RPM (150-350) were considered for both the adsorbents. Maximum defluoridation of 89% was achieved by BAC at a concentration of 10 mg/L, adsorbent dose 6 g/L, pH 5, temperature 313.15 K, agitation speed 250 rpm, and contact time 9 h, whereas PHAC attained maximum removal of 78% at an initial concentration of 8 mg/L, adsorbent dose 10 g/L, pH 4, temperature 313.15 K, and contact time 12 h. Instrumental analysis by SEM, EDX, and FTIR confirmed about the fluoride binding ability of the adsorbents. The Langmuir isotherm model provided the best fit (R2 = 0.9962 and 0.9945) to the removal process with maximum adsorptive uptake of 16.85 and 6.22 mg/g by BAC and PHAC respectively. The adsorption phenomenon was found to obey pseudo-second-order kinetics. The endothermic, spontaneous, and feasible nature of the sorption process was confirmed by the thermodynamic study. The total costs of 1 kg adsorbent preparation were calculated as 1.122 USD and 1.0615 USD which helped us in determining the economic feasibility of the adsorbents in large-scale applications. The growth of Chlorella sorokiniana BTA 9031 was also observed to be affected by the fluoride solution. Comparing the removal efficiencies of both the adsorbents, it can be concluded that BAC shell proved to be an efficient adsorbent over PHAC for fluoride elimination from aqueous solution. Graphical abstract Defluoridation of aqueous solution using biochar derived from Aegle marmelos shell and Parthenium hysterophorus.
Concepts: Concentration, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Adsorption, Solutions, Aqueous solution, Rutaceae, Aurantioideae
The Asian citrus psyllid host Murraya koenigii is immune to citrus Huanglongbing pathogen 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus'
Phytopathology
The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) Diaphorina citri, vector of 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' (CLas), the putative causal agent of citrus Huanglongbing (HLB), is controlled by application of insecticides, which, although effective, has resulted in serious biological imbalances. New management tools are needed, and the technique known as 'trap crop' has been attracting attention. A potential plant for use as a trap crop in the management of the ACP is Murraya koenigii (curry leaf). However, for this plant to be used in the field, it needs to be attractive for the vector and must not harbor CLas. To verify the potential of curry leaf as trap crop for the management of HLB, we investigated the ability of D. citri to transmit CLas to M. koenigii, and to other test plants, including M. paniculata (orange jasmine) and 'Valencia' sweet-orange seedlings. For the tests, the insects were reared on a symptomatic CLas-infected plant and allowed to feed on the three test plant species. The overall maximum transmission rate for the citrus seedlings was 83.3%, and for orange jasmine was 33.3%. Successful transmission of CLas by ACP to the curry-leaf seedlings was not observed, and it was treated as immune to CLas. Supported by the previous results that M. koenigii is attractive for ACP, these results indicate that curry leaf is an excellent candidate for use as a trap crop, to improve the management of the insect vector and consequently of HLB.
Concepts: Insect, Fern, Orange, Plant morphology, Flowering plant, Rutaceae, Murraya, Curry Tree
Phylogeny and biogeography of the pantropical genus Zanthoxylum and its closest relatives in the proto-Rutaceae group (Rutaceae)
Zanthoxylum L. (prickly ash) is the only genus in the Citrus L. family (Rutaceae) with a pantropical distribution. We present the first detailed phylogenetic and biogeographic study of the genus and its close relatives in the proto-Rutaceae group. Our phylogenetic analyses based on two plastid and two nuclear markers show that the genus Toddalia Juss. is nested within Zanthoxylum, that earlier generic and intrageneric classifications need revision, and that the homochlamydeous flowers of the temperate species of Zanthoxylum are the result of a reduction from heterochlamydeous flowers. The biogeographic analyses reveal a Eurasian origin of Zanthoxylum in the Paleocene or Eocene with successive intercontinental or long-range migrations. Zanthoxylum likely crossed the North Atlantic Land Bridges to colonize the Americas in the Eocene, and migrated back to the Old World probably via the Bering Land Bridge in the Oligocene or Miocene. Zanthoxylum also colonized several Pacific Islands and the Hawaiian clade shows phylogenetic incongruence between the plastid and nuclear datasets, suggesting hybridization. The Hawaiian species are one of the rare examples of endemic Hawaiian lineages that are older than the current main islands.
Concepts: Biology, Species, United States, Pacific Ocean, Biogeography, Rutaceae, Beringia, Zanthoxylum
Attractiveness of Host Plant Volatile Extracts to the Asian Citrus Psyllid, Diaphorina citri, is Reduced by Terpenoids from the Non-Host Cashew
Journal of chemical ecology
Diaphorina citri is a vector of the bacterial causative agent of Huanglongbing (HLB = Citrus greening), a severe disease affecting citrus crops. As there is no known control for HLB, manipulating insect behaviour through deployment of semiochemicals offers a promising opportunity for protecting citrus crops. The behavioural responses of D. citri to plant volatiles, and the identity of these plant volatiles were investigated. Volatiles were collected from host plants Murraya paniculata, Citrus sinensis, C. reshni, C. limettioides, Poncirus trifoliata, and from non-host plants Psidium guajava, Mangifera indica, Anacardium occidentale. In behavioural assays, female D. citri spent more time in the arms containing volatiles from either M. paniculata or C. sinensis compared to the control arms. When D. citri was exposed to volatiles collected from A. occidentale, they preferred the control arm. Volatiles emitted from the other studied plants did not influence the foraging behaviour of D. citri. Chemical analyses of volatile extracts from C. sinensis, M. paniculata, and A. occidentale revealed the presence of the terpenoids (E)-4,8-dimethylnona-1,3,7-triene (DMNT) and (E,E)-4,8,12-trimethyltrideca-1,3,7,11-tetraene (TMTT) in higher amounts in A. occidentale. In further behavioural bioassays, female D. citri spent less time in arms containing a synthetic blend of DMNT and TMTT compared to the control arms. Female D. citri also spent less time in arms containing the synthetic blend in combination with volatile extracts from either M. paniculata or C. sinensis compared to the control arms. Results suggest that higher release of the two terpenoids by A. occidentale make this species unattractive to D. citri, and that the terpenoids could be used in reducing colonisation of citrus plants and therefore HLB infection.
Concepts: Citrus, Fruit, Cashew, Psidium guajava, Guava, Rutaceae, Anacardiaceae, Murraya paniculata
Characterisation of nutraceutical compounds from different parts of particular species of Citrus sinensis 'Ovale Calabrese' by UHPLC-UV-ESI-HRMS
Natural product research
Consumers are aware of diet causing health problems and therefore there is an increased demand for natural ingredients that are expected to be safe and health-promoting. Many of these compounds belong to the class of flavonoids and can be divided into these five groups: flavanones, flavones, flavonols, flavanols, isoflavones and anthocyanidins. Extracts from citrus fruits are usually used as functional ingredients for several products. The aim of this paper was to develop an UHPLC-UV-ESI-HRMS method to define the metabolite profile of different parts of citrus fruit, of a particular cultivar called 'Ovale Calabrese', and in its main by-products. The high resolution mass spectrometry analysis allowed the identification of 27 compounds belonging to the classes of flavonoids and terpenoids. The high contents of phytochemical compounds, reveal the potential use of the 'Ovale Calabrese' as a rich source of nutraceutical compounds.
Concepts: Nutrition, Mass spectrometry, Citrus, Fruit, Flavonoid, Orange, Grapefruit, Rutaceae
Glycosidically bound volatiles as affected by ripening stages of Satsuma mandarin fruit
Composition and changes in free volatiles have been extensively studied in citrus fruit such as mandarin. However, components of glycosidically bound volatiles and changes during fruit ripening have been rarely investigated. A total of 56 glycosidically-bound volatiles were identified in fruit peel at four ripening stages. The highest concentrations in glycosidically-bound volatiles were observed for methyl salicylate in ripening fruit. Concentration of total bound volatiles increased from color conversion stage at 150days after bloom (DAB), peaked at yellow stage (190DAB), followed by a decrease at orange stage (210DAB). Satsuma mandarin fruit at different ripening stages could be separated in a partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) plot using glycosidically bound volatiles as variables. In total 35 glycosidically bound volatiles were identified with variable importance in projection (VIP) score exceeding 1, which may be potential markers for separating fruit at different ripening stages.
Concepts: Citrus, Fruit, Orange, Tangerine, Rutaceae, Mandarin orange, Tangor, Satsuma


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Die Transgourmet Schweiz AG ist ein 1964 gegründetes Schweizer Unternehmen mit Sitz in Basel. Das Unternehmen, das aus der ehemaligen Prodega AG hervorging, gehört heute zur Transgourmet Holding und ist damit im Besitz des Schweizer Detailhandelskonzerns Coop. Unter dem Namen Transgourmet/Prodega (vormals Prodega/Growa CC) führt das Unternehmen eine Abholmarkt-Kette und Regionallager für die Belieferung.

Geschichte
1964 gründeten die Schweizer Unternehmer Hans Edi Curti, Pierre Grandjean und Heinz Wehrli die Cash & Carry Prodega AG. Prodega steht dabei für PRO DEtailhandel und GAstronomie. 1965 wurde der erste Markt im bernischen Schönbühl gegründet. Dieser Markt zog drei Jahre später nach Moosseedorf. Zusammen mit den Unternehmen Gromerco AG und Legro AG wurde 1979 die Prodega Cash & Carry Gruppe gegründet. 1980 führte die Prodega als erstes Unternehmen der Schweiz das EAN-System ein. 1986 fand der Börsengang statt. 1989 wurde die Growa-Gruppe (GROsse WAren) aufgekauft, worauf das Unternehmen unter dem Namen Prodega/Growa CC firmierte. Beim Bau des Prodega-Markts Dietikon 1997 wurde erstmals ein Coolway, ein grosser begehbarer "Kühlschrank", eingebaut. Zur damaligen Zeit eine echte Innovation.

Mit Beschluss der Generalversammlung vom 23. Juni 2000 wurde, infolge Fusion mit der Prodega AG, die Auflösung der Growa AG und vollständige Integration rückwirkend auf Anfang 2000 in die Prodega AG beschlossen. Die Prodega AG war bis 2003 Teil von Beat Curtis Bon-appétit-Gruppe, dessen ehrgeizige Expansionspläne die Unternehmensgruppe jedoch in finanzielle Schieflage brachte, was zur Veräusserung verschiedener Aktivitäten zur Folge hatte. Mitte 2003 wurde die Bon-appétit-Gruppe mit den noch verbliebenen Aktivitäten, mit unter anderem auch der Prodega AG und der Marke Growa, an die deutsche Rewe Group verkauft.

2005 gingen Coop und Rewe unter dem Namen «Transgourmet» ein Joint-Venture ein. Dabei brachte Coop Bell Gastro und Rewe Prodega/Growa CC sowie Howeg in das Gemeinschaftsunternehmen ein. Gleichzeitig wurde die Prodega AG mit Statutenänderung vom 4. März 2005 in «Transgourmet Schweiz AG» umbenannt. Die in das Joint-Venture eingebrachte Aktivitäten treten weiterhin mit ihren bisherigen Marken am Markt. Auch wurde die Zentrale der neu als Division innerhalb der Transgourmet Schweiz AG organisierte Prodega/Growa CC in  Moosseedorf belassen. Der Sitz der Transgourmet Schweiz AG wurde 2007 von Moosseedorf nach Basel verlegt.

2007 überschritt Prodega/Growa CC erstmals die Milliarden-Umsatzgrenze. 2008 wurde das Joint-Venture ausgebaut und die Transgourmet Schweiz AG mit Prodega/Growa CC in die neu gegründete «Transgourmet Holding AG» eingebracht.

2011 übernahm Coop die Transgourmet-Gruppe und somit Prodega/Growa und die damalige Howeg (heute Transgourmet) zu 100 %. 2013 schlossen sich Prodega/Growa und Howeg zusammen. In der Belieferung wurde auf eine regionale Strategie gesetzt. Bis Ende 2013 eröffneten Prodega/Growa/Howeg vier neue Regionallager in Quartino, Satigny-Genève, Chur und Neuendorf. Dabei wurde direkt in den verschiedenen Regionen gerüstet und von dort aus beliefert. 2014 erfolgte der Namenswechsel von Howeg auf Transgourmet. Im selben Jahr fusionierte Transgourmet Schweiz mit der im Engadin ansässigen Valentin Pontresina AG. Diese wurde in Valentin Gastro umfirmiert. 2015 wurde das Zentrallager der ehemaligen Howeg in Winterthur geschlossen. 2016 baute Transgourmet den  Bereich Wein aus und übernahm die auf spanische Weine fokussierte Casa del Vino. Im Jahr darauf folgte der Weinkeller Riegger. Beide Unternehmen werden eigenständig weitergeführt. Per 2017 verstärkte Transgourmet Schweiz ihre Positionierung im Tessin und übernahm den Geschäftsbetrieb der Cash&Carry Ipergros. Die Standorte Losone und Noranco wurden nicht weitergeführt. 2018 übertrugen Luigi Zanini sen. und Luigi Zanini jr. die Geschäftstätigkeit ihrer Weinhandelsfirma Zanini SA und die Weinproduktion Vinattieri Ticinesi SA an die neu gegründete Gesellschaft Zanini Vinattieri SA, eine Tochtergesellschaft der Transgourmet Schweiz. Anfangs 2018 baute Transgourmet den  Handel mit Frischfisch und Comestibles-Produkten aus und übernahm die Geschäftstätigkeit der in Basel ansässigen Polar AG Comestibles und der Braschler's Comestibles Import AG aus Zürich. Ab 2019 wurden beide Geschäfte unter dem Namen Frischeparadies an neuen Standorten in Basel und Zürich geführt. Aufgrund Corona wurde der Markt Basel im Sommer 2020 geschlossen.

2019 wurden alle Growa-Märkte auf Prodega umfirmiert. Das Unternehmen führt nun schweizweit alle Abholmärkte unter diesem Namen. Seit 2013 wurden zwischenzeitlich insgesamt acht Regionallager gebaut und in Betrieb genommen.
2020 wurden die drei Weinfirmen Casa del Vino, Weinkeller Riegger und Zanini Vinattieri zu einer Aktiengesellschaft zusammengeschlossen und unter dem Namen Casa del Vino SA geführt.

Transgourmet/Prodega
Heute bildet Transgourmet/Prodega eine Division der Transgourmet Schweiz AG und ist Marktführerin im Belieferungs- und Abholgrosshandel sowie die einzige, die in allen drei Landesteilen operiert. Geleitet wird die Division seit Anfang 2009 von Philipp Dautzenberg, der zugleich auch Vorsitzender der Geschäftsleitung der Transgourmet Schweiz ist.

Unter dem Namen Prodega werden Märkte mit einem Vollsortiment von 25'000 Artikeln geführt. Einkaufsberechtigt sind ausschliesslich Betriebe aus Gastronomie, Hotellerie, Systemverpflegung, dem Detailhandel und Gewerbe. Das Vollsortiment steht auch Belieferungskunden zur Verfügung, die direkt aus den Regionallagern von Transgourmet beliefert werden.

Märkte und Regionallager

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Inside the Unsolved Murder of JFK's Mistress Mary Pinchot Meyer
Town and Country 12/1/2022 Leena Kim
On a brisk autumn day in October 1964, Washington D.C. socialite and painter Mary Pinchot Meyer was out for an afternoon stroll on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath in Georgetown, a route she often took, when she was shot and killed in broad daylight. A 25-year-old African American man named Ray Crump was arrested, having been found near the crime scene. The lack of evidence, though, eventually lead to his acquittal.
To this day, the murder remains unsolved, but the case is still the subject of fascination to many, inspiring memoirs, novels, a TV series, and now, a new podcast, "Murder on the Towpath," by Emmy-winning veteran journalist Soledad O 'Brien that premieres today on Luminary, the subscription podcast network.
Who Was Mary Pinchot Meyer?
© Bettmann - Getty Images Mary Pinchot and Cord Meyer on their wedding day, 1945
Why the endless fascination? For one, Meyer was a very well-connected socialite with a social pedigree. Her father was a wealthy lawyer, her mother a journalist, and an uncle had served as a two-time governor of Pennsylvania. She was educated at Manhattan's prestigious Brearley School, and then went on to Vassar, and had married a high-ranking CIA official named Cord Meyer, whom she divorced in 1958.
She counted Jackie Kennedy as a friend; the Kennedys had moved in next door to the Meyers in 1954 and the two women took walks together, often on the same path where Meyer was later murdered. Ben Bradlee, who would go on to lead the The Washington Post and become a folk hero after Watergate, was her brother-in-law (he was married to her sister Antoinette).
She was also John F. Kennedy's mistress. The two had known each other since high school, when they met at a school dance at Choate, and struck up a secret romantic relationship after her divorce. She would visit JFK at the White House when Jackie went out of town. In October 1963, a month before he was assassinated, the president wrote a letter to Meyer imploring her to visit him in Boston or on the Cape. "Why don't you just say yes," it read. The letter, which was never sent and remained with JFK's personal secretary Evelyn Lincoln, went up for auction in 2016 and sold for nearly $89,000.
© Robert L. Knudsen/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Mary Pinchot Meyer at birthday family dinner on May 29, 1963 for President John F. Kennedy aboard the Sequoia, the 104-foot presidential yacht, which cruised down the Potomac River that evening. Aside from Secret Service agents, guests included family members, actors David Niven and Peter Lawford, Ben and Tony Bradlee, and Meyer.
Meyer lived in Georgetown with her two sons, where she had moved after her divorce and became an artist; she spent most of her time painting in her studio. On October 12, 1964, at around noon, she left for her daily walk on the towpath along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. There she was shot twice.
In just 45 minutes, the police apprehended a suspect, Crump, who was found nearby, his clothes soaked. He said he had been fishing, dropped his pole, and fell into the canal while trying to retrieve it. Legendary civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree became Crump's defense lawyer and he was acquitted of all charges in July 1965. The murder was never solved.
Meyer's Relationships with JFK and the CIA Have Fueled Several Conspiracy Theories
Meyer's illustrious social connections—plus the shock that something like this had happened in tony Georgetown—made this crime particularly salacious. And her affair with Kennedy and her connections to the CIA, an organization she openly criticized, inevitably fed the conspiracy-theory machine. Was the CIA behind both Meyer's and JFK's deaths, with their alleged killers the scapegoats? Did the CIA order the hit because she knew too much?
© Art Rickerby President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie arriving for his fateful final trip in Texas, November 1963
Several things fueled the speculation: The execution-style manner of her killing, a close-range shot to the head and one to the chest. Then, the fact that her death occurred a few weeks after the release of the Warren Commission (which concluded that JFK's assassination was the work of a lone gunman) further fanned the flames, since she allegedly challenged its conclusions.
Finally, there was the fact that the CIA was wiretapping her phone and its counterintelligence chief was found trying to break into her studio to find her diary after the murder, likely to prevent details of her affair with JFK from becoming public.
But Meyer Isn't the Only Fascinating Woman at the Center of This Story
In "Murder on the Towpath," O 'Brien delves deeper into the unsolved mystery of Meyer's death by shifting focus away from all the conspiracy theories and to the women at the heart of this story. Meyer is one, of course, and the other is Dovey Johnson Roundtree, the trailblazing civil rights attorney who successfully defended Meyer's accused killer and got him acquitted.
© The Washington Post - Getty Images Dovey Johnson Roundtree
"It's very easy to go to conspiracy theories. Sometimes they're wacky, sometimes they're interesting," says O 'Brien, who spent nine months investigating the case, interviewing friends, relatives, historians, and biographers, and consulting memoirs, especially Ben Bradlee's, for the eight-episode series.
"But what was really compelling was this idea of these two women who were both trying to figure out how to live their lives in 1964. I thought the 1960s was an interesting era to think about for women and how they were often thwarted, whether they were rich and white or poor and black."
Roundtree, who died in 2018 at the age of 104, grew up in the Jim Crow South and worked her way up to become a civil rights champion who broke several racial and gender barriers throughout her life. She was one of the first women to be commissioned an Army officer, she secured the ban on racial segregation on interstate buses, and, in 1964, she took on Crump's defense for just $1—and secured his acquittal.
That Roundtree, an African American woman, was able to get a poor, black man acquitted of murdering a very rich, white woman was a historic achievement, especially in 1960s America, a period of immense civil unrest.
© Hearst Soledad O'Brien
It's how the trajectories of Meyer's and Roundtree's lives aligned, even though the two women never met, that interested O 'Brien. She wanted to make these women—not the men around them—the focus, something that hasn't been done for the past 50 years. "Technically they're at the center of the story: one is murdered and the other is a person who argues a case she's expected to lose. Yet historically they've been moved off the center," she says. "It's a metaphor for how women were treated in the 1960s."
There's a telling moment that O 'Brien recounts in the first episode: a police officer examining Meyer's dead body at the crime scene proceeds to make a comment about how pretty she is. "It felt like an important element because it speaks to the people of this story constantly being rendered powerless," she notes.
As for those conspiracy theories, O 'Brien does address them. "For me as a reporter the key is to have transparency," she says. "You can't ignore them because they exist."
But "Murder on the Towpath" goes far deeper into the layers. It's a true crime story about two compelling, strong, and independent women, plus history, mystery, and a lot of twists and turns. Says O 'Brien: "There's so much more to this case than just conspiracy theories and a love affair with JFK."
© Luminary Murder On The Towpath is produced by FilmNation in association with Neon Hum Media
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Ok, ok, I know that I have not posted in awhile but I've been training and that means lots of running with my 50k only a little over 3 weeks away. Holy cow, that's crazy! I'll be topping out my mileage this weekend and it will be taper mode again!
Seeing that I'm moving towards the Ultra marathon world, I figured why not add a pair of shoes to fit that. There's what I got - The Hoka One One Stinson Trail. I'll be testing them out for the first time as you read this and I'll be sure to report back in a month or so.
If all goes well(I'll be running 25-30 miles this weekend) and I'll wear these for Oil Creek, otherwise, I'll go with my trusty Pearl Izumi N2's.


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An inveterate collaborator, Sarah Kanouse recently worked with Ryan Griffis and Nicholas Brown, on the the Anthropocene Drift field station for Mississippi: An Anthropocene River, sponsored by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She is one half of the National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service, a 'wishful' government agency addressing the cultural and ecological impacts of nuclear militarism, and was a core member of Compass, an art collaborative best known for staging a series of performative hearings into the intergenerational and inter-species impacts of industrial agriculture on regional and global eco-social systems. With Nicholas Brown, she explored landscapes of settler commemoration in the Midwest in the photo-text book Re-Collecting Black Hawk (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015).
Her creative work has been screened or exhibited at Documenta 13, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, the Cooper Union, the Clark Art Institute, the Smart Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and in numerous academic institutions as CUNY Graduate Center, George Mason University, University of California Berkeley, Colorado College, and the University of Wisconsin. She has written extensively about performative and site-based contemporary art practices in the journals Acme, Leonardo, Parallax, and Art Journal,as well the edited volumes Ecologies, Agents, Terrains; Critical Landscapes, Art Against the Law, and Mapping Environmental Issues in the City.
A 2019-2020 Rachel Carson Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Sarah Kanouse holds a permanent position as Associate Professor in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University.
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Heartbroken Pup Can't Get Over His Best Friend's Death So He Visits Him Everyday
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Last week, after years of illness which had left him paralyzed, 79-year-old Mehmet Ilhan died at a hospital near his home in Bursa, Turkey. For the last two years of his life, this little dog, named Cesur, had been Mehmet's faithful companion, so his passing was especially heartbreaking.
Still, no one could have expected what happened next.
Source: https://www.thedodo.com/dog-visits-grave...
Cesur recently lost the one person in his life who mattered most to him. But even in the wake of his best friend's death, Cesur's love and loyalty for him still have yet to fade.
"Because of my father's paralysis, they had a different kind of connection," Mehmet's son Ali says.
During the ceremony, Cesur sat by the coffin, his head hanging sadly. This is how he remained the entire time.
"When my father was in the hospital during his last days, Cesur stopped eating." Mehmet adds.
After Mehmet's body arrived home, Cesur remained close by, refusing to budge. When a procession formed to carry the coffin to a local mosque for the funeral, the dog insisted on leading the way.
"Nobody could touch him until my father was taken to the grave and was buried," said Ali.
Cesur watched as Mehmet was laid to rest. Sadly though, it seems to have brought him little closure.
The most touching part is that for the last five days since the funeral, Cesur has traveled through town to the burial site to sit by his old friend's side.
Ali had been noticing that Cesur would dart off through the door when he left for work, but it wasn't until he decided to follow him one day that he realized what was happening.
On this day, they paid their respects to Mehmet together.
"The people who work in the cemetery say the first thing he does in the morning is visit the grave of my father," said Ali.
It's unclear how long Cesur's daily pilgrimages will continue, or if he'll ever fully heal from the loss.
In any case, however, Ali promises that the little dog won't have to face the future on his own.
"Cesur has always been a noble animal," said Ali. "He will live with me from now on."